Užice- Over the last ten years, Užice has put a lot of effort and work into addressing the issue of Environmental Protection, so it made sense to continue the Look Around campaign here, EU Head of Delegation to Serbia Sam Fabric said at EU Green Day in this city.
Together with the Ministry of European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Environment Dragan Jeremic and Uzice Mayor Tihomir Petkovic, he visited the first regional solid waste landfill "Duboko", which began operations in 2011.
"The construction of this landfill has created conditions for the reliability and safe disposal of municipal waste, improved solid waste management, and this is the best improved environment," Fabrici said.
The factories were sure that the environment was a very important environmental issue to implement at the state level, not just from Belgrade.
Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic said that it is very important to strengthen local and communal infrastructure, and to change bad habits when every individual in order not to improve the quality of life of every citizen of Serbia.
"Healthy drinking water and clean air are an elementary level of human dignity and no citizen in any part of Serbia should be denied these rights," Joksimovic said.
Uzice Mayor Tihomir Petkovic said that when it comes to environmental protection, the basic problems of this city are still insufficient with qualitative air and the problem of wastewater treatment, so this is a case when he asked everyone present to help solve these problems in the next few years. and to continue the support they have now received.
After the visit to the landfill, the presidents of the EU Delegation to Serbia and the Government of the Republic of Serbia visited the Uzice Women's Center, which deals with textile recycling and served as a social enterprise. This center is an innovative model of waste textile processing and created on the principle of circular economy, but also with a social component, employment of women from vulnerable categories.
The Look Around campaign began on June 12 and lasted until mid-July, with the goal of raising awareness of the importance of environmental protection as one of Serbia's EU accession priorities.
Neolife
At the very end of the Green Day in Uzice, the National Museum presents the results so far and forthcoming activities on the implementation of the Neolife project, which is being implemented under the Serbia-Bosnia and Herzegovina Cross-border Development Program 2014-2020. The project involves the construction of a Neolithic archeological park in the canyon of the Djetinja River in Uzice as an interpretation of the Uzice Neolithic settlement Gradina. The park will be constructed on the basis of available archival buildings from the period of archaeological research of the Gradina Gradina site and modeled on contemporary archeological parks in the world.